Wrapped up my grad program in December 2022 with a thesis on The Impact of the 2018 Wine Tariffs on domestic wine.

Research topics I'm interested in:

• The impact of policy changes on social welfare
  • Specifically, tariffs and international trade, on prices and production
• Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
  • Currently studying Matthew Jackson's Social and Economic Networks textbook
  • Using it for research with Dr. Michail Fragkias in urban science creation using NetworkX
• Anything in my daily life that I can try to model and refine
• Why is data so freaking difficult to obtain for most the questions we care about?
  • And how the heck can we weed out causal effects?
    • Recently wrapped up research using structural causal models (specifically ANMs) in the economic development of the Pearl River Delta Region of China with Fragkias
  • Messy data isn't new; econometricians have been identifying workarounds for awhile
    • See: "Data and Econometricians—The Uneasy Alliance" by Zvi Griliches (1985)
  • Currently researching the relationship between patents and GMP with Fragkias and Joshaghani

Some methods I enjoy:

• Time Series (ARIMA, VAR, State Space)
• Gravity Models
• k-NN, Clustering, various classification techniques
• Causal Inference: 2SLS, DID, IV, SCM (Judea Pearl & Jonas Peters)
  • Shout out to Angrist & Pischke's Mostly Harmless Econometrics

If you're interested in chatting or collaborating on a project, feel free to email me at [email protected].

Thanks for stopping by!